LETTER: Too many Trump supporters abetted the Jan. 6 riots

In effect to David L Brandt’s, “Tiny number” missive of Aug. 14: I mightiness enactment that 99.395 percent of a Trump-supporting mob stood by and watched, arsenic astatine slightest 605 of their ilk violently attacked our Capital, to halt the law enactment of certifying the election. The fig of attackers arrested continues to grow.

What is alarming is the information that nary of the observers raised a manus to halt the insurrection. Donald Trump didn’t adjacent effort to halt the onslaught until the Capital was breached, soon aft calling Mike Pence a coward portion insurrectionists were calling to bent him.

I conjecture it’s perfectly good to beryllium an excited perceiver of specified a horrendous enactment against our democracy. The full thought that lasting by and watching an insurrection is perfectly good arsenic agelong arsenic you don’t enactment is alarming. Yes, determination are a batch of things to speech about, and this onslaught against our state by home-grown terrorists is 1 of them.